“A bill to reaffirm the authority of the Department of Defense to maintain United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a location for the detention of unprivileged enemy belligerents held by the Department of Defense, and for other purposes” has just been introduced by New Hampshire’s own United States Senator Kelly Ayotte.
I wonder if Senator Ayotte had been born in Afghanistan and watched as her innocent family was black-hooded and taken away to Guantanamo if she would still exhort such deplorable treatment of human life.
Colonel Wilkerson, who was General Powell’s chief of staff when he ran the State Department, was most critical of Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld. He claimed that the former Vice-President and Defence Secretary knew that the majority of the initial 742 detainees sent to Guantánamo in 2002 were innocent but believed that it was “politically impossible to release them”.
